Peggy Weil

Adjunct Professor, Design

BA Harvard University, MSVS M.I.T.

Peggy Weil is a digital media artist and designer focusing on interactive and immersive design.  As a member of the Architecture Machine Group (now the M.I.T. Media Lab) from 1980-1982, she worked on pioneering interactive projects in design and telepresence, going on to create titles for The Voyager Company, Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Von Holtzbrinck and Ravensberger Interactive.   Weil was awarded the MILIA D'OR in Cannes in 1998 for the CD-ROM series Moving Puzzle.  She designed the original Roden Crater website in 1996 and was creative producer/designer for USC's Institute for Creative Technology E.L.E.C.T. project, a role-playing game to increase cultural awareness in Army Officers and The Redistricting Game, a USC Annenberg Center sponsored project to increase voter awareness about redistricting.  Projects include The Blurring Test, a reverse Turing Test running for over a decade; Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo Prison; Wall Jumpers, a global visualization of political separation barriers and the IPSRESS Project, an experiment in Immersive Journalism. Her work has been exhibited at LABoral in Gijon Spain, presented internationally, including Games For Change Conference in New York, The Center for Human Rights at UC Berkeley, MIPDOC and MIPTV in Cannes, Simposio Feedforward, LABoral and PICNIC Amsterdam.

Contact: pweil (at) cca (dot) edu